LAST August the right to strike in the famous Gdansk agreement. Last week the withdrew that right for two months after premier unless the measure was approved.
speech to the Czechoslovak party congress last week is now clear. delegation to roll back the gains of the Polish workers, whatever the cost. Jaruzelski's new stand is the direct result.
Solidarity has also speech to secrurity Politburo member, Andrzei Zabinski. Zabinski called for repression against the KOR Among the places wiere vartv memoers ieu the strikes last August one ole most sizmilıcarıl was Torun. The Inter-factory SLoke commalice (MKS) was led by Zbigniew Iwanow, a party member from the Towimor shipmachinery Dlant published an win wanow n goclals Challenge two weeks ago).
Movement When the August strikes ended, Iwanow was elected First Secretary of vally visalisalvl ne raclor- He ano ns comrades then launched a movement which spread to thro lehsut the couvry. least provinces They established Consultative Commission, deriving the idea trom the MKS established in Torun during the strike.
Instead ot the .exclusively vertical links from basic party organisaupwards the higher party committees, iney Dulll nonzonlal liks between rank-and-file organisations through the Consultative Commission.
Very quickly one party organisation after another u orun annualeo lo une Commission, and by early this out of 17,000 in Torun city 7,000 members were affiliated to the Consultative Commission. The Polish workers won the Polish parliament Jaruzeliski threatened to resign The meaning of Soviet leader Brezhnev's He told the Polish exposed a secret police chiefs made by body has become in effect an alternative leadership to the City Committee.
Crisis The consultative commissions were built in the by rank-and-file vally members for an extraordinary party Con(The last Congress naa laken place only February 1980, and they normally take place every 5 years.)
The party rank and file had gone through a profound crisis in August a they saw the Gierek seeking to •reak une mass suake altu threatening to open an Irreparable gulf between the maty ran nd find e ulass full-ally workers.
So the demand for the Congress was linked to a radically reform the party Statutes, to democratise the party, and to prevent such breech with the workers ever happening again. Violation The Kania group at first tried to oppose speedy congress, claiming it would be won by the confrontationist wing of the party anyway. But in the autumn, the Central Committee finally agreed lo an exiraoramary colldissidents and advisors to Solidarity, and for a process of corrupting and winning over the leaders of the new union movement.
statements such as that made by Lech Walesa who claimed last week that Solidarity cracked down on its militants.' There is a tremendous radicalisation going on inside Solidarity and the Polish Communist Party, particularly in the run-up to the party congress.
article by Peter Green from the latest issue of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe describing the growth of the opposition currents within the ress, while simultaneous y Kania denounced the construction of horizontal links at the base of the pardemocratic centraliom. violation of On 24 November, the Torun party Control Commission expelled Iwanow the pary on the grounas challenged MaristBut this didn't stop the Iwaluw Culli tinued to function as if he was a nartv member. anc the horizontal movement, by now called the AntiApparatus' movement, spread to other centres.
Amongst the first were nearby Bydgoszcz ana Lodz, where two factories, romca ana Marcniewski. were the driving force.
November alul. ding to Le Monde).
Radom, Katowice and Krakow had become involved. The movement alsu spread to Gdansk, Szczecin, Pulawy, Poznan and Pabianice by early 1981.
The characteristic СОШpolichts orinc movemeni have been the large inusurd oranes ano universities and colleges.
By the beginning of March, the factory party organisations around the COVuLEy VUlVCU antl-aparatus movement were planning to hold a This policy of division is not helped by 'it was time Below we reprint an abridged version of an delegate conference Torun in response to the party leadership's postponement of the Congress (which was originally scheduled for March but is now due in July). Demands In the end they decided not to call the conference on the could have laid them open zoulus that capulsiull tionalism'. But during the early months of 1981, the movement has deepened and widened party members have twice defied the Icaueisnp Dal ticipating in big Solidarity strike actions. By the end of March no fewer than Inirteen or rourteen tnou sand individual proposals IoI Change. to the poneed ly statutes had trom the membership; School inself (inked fo while Higher Party the LeHla now published its own new ComlltiCC. ¡las dratt statutes Itolig: amongst other things, the legalisation of horizontal links at the base This 'swelling tide has produced a hysterical reac. tion from sections of the party apparatus, (ociolek, the Warsaw Party Secretary, declaring that 'an attack on the apparatus is an attack on the party precise TOT mulation of the average consciousness or une paratchiks.
According to George Kolankiewicz (from whom a great deal of the infor mation in this article comes), during the last 10 years of Central CommitLet members save been drawn from a band of parSCCIcLanc and economic managers who in terms or occupation. ac count for only 4.3% of the party membership.
The following demands loom large in the anti-aparatus movement: Twenty one times 'Yes' refers to the Gdansk Agreement's 21 demands accountability of all officials to the organs that elected them; election of all secretaries the shop floor; abolition of the special career grade of apparatchik; limits on the length of tenure of secretariat posts; voting by secret ballot; the recallability of officials; a free choice of candidates at all levels; at least a 100% increment of candidates „ove posts local level and 50% higher levels Changes such as these if combined with the right to form political tendencies within the party, would bring about a major change in the entire func. tioning DONLICd system. But at the time, the fate of the strug gle the party depends above all on the continued strengthening of Solidarity and upon a for Soldarily wei hin tre within rank and file of the party was the workers' mass action that the anti-apparatus movement grew, and it is by its assistance : to the needs of undeDencenl maass move ment that the apparatus movemeu wal ultimately be judged.